Sentence examples for long dive from inspiring English sources

This is a long dive from the Odyssey.

Coming down on the island in a steep, long dive, he had misjedged his distance and come in too low.

That was when he jumped, he explained to his mother, his thin arm making a long dive over his rumpled pajamas toward his toes.

Finally, the flight data recorder shows that after a long dive, the elevators pointed in opposite directions, a sign that the two men were working their controls in opposite directions, American investigators say.

In addition, McKinlay said, divers are careful not to eat anything unusual at dinner the night before a long dive — a non-trivial challenge at Carrabba's, the restaurant they'd chosen for the evening — and, in the morning, to pay close attention to their breakfast choices, coffee drinking, and bathroom scheduling.

According to the safety diver, a man named Tom Steiner van den Ouweelen, her lanyard kept catching on the markers attached to the rope every five metres and she lost "fifteen or twenty seconds to freeing it, both up and down, which is very much for such a long dive".

They then swam rapidly away from the noise and some performed unusually deep and long dives.

The front and back feet are fully webbed; large lungs allow long dives and provide buoyancy; and thick fur provides insulation.

On long dives, over a taxing 59 days, the men pull up dishes that alter understanding about trade in the era.

McKinlay told me that, on long dives, eliminating old nutrients is actually less of a concern than acquiring new ones, because it's hard to keep proteins from going bad during extended immersion and because eating underwater is tricky.

But while Berenbrink's work has found a veritable built-in oxygen tank in divers, he says we still don't know whether this tank provides enough for the long dives made by beaked whales.